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Satellite broadcaster DirecTV Group (DTV) plans to expand its pay-per-view movie offerings by 10 times, to 400 titles, this summer.

Like cable TV rivals, DirecTV is looking to exploit a window of opportunity — a four-week window, to be precise — by beaming new releases to homes before they can be rented from DVD distributors Netflix (NFLX) and Redbox.

DirecTV's pay-per-view service now offers 30 to 40 movies. About half its 18.6 million U.S. customers — those with set-top boxes that have built-in digital video recorders — can download movies, but the company hopes more users will now get its DVR service.

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Satellite broadcaster DirecTV Group (DTV) plans to expand its pay-per-view movie offerings by 10 times, to 400 titles, this summer....DirecTV's pay-per-view service now offers 30 to 40 movies.

Hmmm... Since I said the very same thing a few days ago in another thread and was essentially called an idiot/troll/trouble-maker for even suggesting such a thing, am I vindicated now that a journalist has said the same thing, or is Investor's Business Daily wrong too?

Hmmm... Since I said the very same thing a few days ago in another thread and was essentially called an idiot/troll/trouble-maker for even suggesting such a thing, am I vindicated now that a journalist has said the same thing, or is Investor's Business Daily wrong too?

Hmmm... Since I said the very same thing a few days ago in another thread and was essentially called an idiot/troll/trouble-maker for even suggesting such a thing, am I vindicated now that a journalist has said the same thing, or is Investor's Business Daily wrong too?

I could care less whether there are 400 or 4 million PPV titles or whether they come via sat or internet. I'll never watch any of them.

You're not vindicated because all you did was try and cause an argument over the company plan. Investor's Business Daily just reported the plan most of us knew already...not moan/start trouble about the 400 titles not being available.

If you stop responding to them or put them on ignore, then eventually they'll go away.

They're pitching WHDS as a way to serve mulitiple TVs with a single DVR. This would seem to be counter to the goal of getting more DVRs into the field.

Then you are missing the point .. There are lots of households without any DVR. There may be a goal along the lines you are thinking but it has more to do with getting non-DVR homes to become DVR homes (giving DIRECTV $7/month more in revenue).

Whole Home is a way to provide another location to view that DVR (new or existing) and is a different push. It's not surprising that DIRECTV is pushing both, just to different segments of the user base.

They're pitching WHDS as a way to serve mulitiple TVs with a single DVR. This would seem to be counter to the goal of getting more DVRs into the field.

Those would only be conflicting goals if every household already had a DVR. Since that is not the case, it is completely in sync to get more DVRs into the field, but only need a single one in each household.

In fact, it's probably easier to convince a non-DVR household to get a DVR when they can be talked into just 1 DVR to serve recordings to the whole house.

No matter what they do I am never going to give up my Netflix. I love that service too much since Blockbuster is dead to me.

Same here. A 28-day delay is not going to have me switch from Netflix to PPV, especially since I get more value out of my Netflix membership. I have the 3 disc Blu-ray rental plan. I received 16 discs last month which if I had viewed these titles via PPV it would have cost $95.84. That may seem like a large number of titles, but we do not have any premium channels.

Note the use of the word beaming (satellite dish) not streaming (internet) this is probably what D12 was intended for all along, goodbye BBCA.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I would certainly prefer most (if not all) PPV to be available via internet rather than sat. But since a large chunk of DIRECTV's subs aren't connected to the internet, that ain't likely anytime soon.

Hmmm... Since I said the very same thing a few days ago in another thread and was essentially called an idiot/troll/trouble-maker for even suggesting such a thing, am I vindicated now that a journalist has said the same thing, or is Investor's Business Daily wrong too?

No, you were just told that they haven't finished the implementation yet. No one ever said they weren't doing it.

You're not vindicated because all you did was try and cause an argument over the company plan. Investor's Business Daily just reported the plan most of us knew already...not moan/start trouble about the 400 titles not being available.

When I claimed that the 400 titles weren't available yet, everybody denied it. They said all PPV counts and that all 400 titles were already available, not just the 30-40 I counted. According to this story, all PPV doesn't count, so those who claimed it did (in a very condescending way I might add) were wrong, and I am vindicated. My main point is that for this summer, the rollout is over, and D* failed to deliver all they promised, which includes these 400 titles. Whether I really care about PPV or not (which I don't) is irrelevant.

No, I was told they already had HERE. If so, then where are they? I knew they hadn't implemented before I even asked the (rhetorical) question.

So to get back on topic, does anyone know how in the heck they are going to deliver 400 PPV titles via sat? I've read the theories about using spotbeams, but does anyone know for sure?

This is just getting started in the process .. Are there even 400 movies making their way from the theaters to on demand in all of 2010? Let's be a little pragmatic about it here. This is a process not an ultimatum.

Also, your beef seems to be due to lack of channels because of this .. as I said a few posts up .. there will be plenty of bandwidth to go around.

When I claimed that the 400 titles weren't available yet, everybody denied it.

Oh, bull. You find one post that conjectures on how to count PPV, which says NOTHING about you whatsoever and ignore the ranting and raving you did in another thread where you were told it was not there yet.